Kitten Puppy Tattoos 🐈🐈‍⬛ and Meaning

A cat tattoo has a multifaceted meaning.

Representatives of the beautiful half of humanity, choosing cat tattoo sketches (most often the tattoos are miniature, monochrome, that is, black, the cat is depicted stretching or playfully raised paws, in general, the drawing is a caricature), appeal to this meaning: a symbol of femininity, joy, grace and cunning.

A deeper study of the history and meaning of cat tattoos reveals interesting facts. In medieval Europe, cats were considered accomplices of witches, and if a person had a tattoo depicting a cat, then for the Inquisition this was evidence of a connection to evil spirits. The fate of the Man with the cat tattoo it was difficult: he was burned at the stake.

There is a goddess Freya in Norse mythology. Your car is pulled by cats. So the Scandinavians were more tolerant of cats.

Two centuries ago, sailors used to draw sketches of cat tattoos. For the sailors, the cat was a symbol of good luck (which is not surprising, because the cat kills rats on the ship, which means that the products will be preserved on the trip and they will not have to starve). So this semantic load, a cat tattoo is made for good luck, persists even now.

A special attitude towards tattoos depicting a cat was in Ancient Egypt.

In Egypt there was a cult of worship of cats, so only the priests of the cult of the goddess Basta had the honor of wearing tattoos with the image of this beast (it was represented in the form of a cat) and some representatives of nobility.

In the East, cats are animals From the temple. So, tattoos depicting a cat in Eastern culture are associated with the embodiment of good.

A tattoo of a cat in modern culture has that meaning: independence, freedom of action (there is a message for "a cat that always walks alone"), the ability to survive in any situation. The last meaning (about super-survival) is directly related to the myth that a cat has nine lives, and when it falls, it always manages to stand on its paws. Also, such a meaning is attributed to a cat tattoo - cunning and deception. Cat tattoos are popular in both color and monochrome.

Americans in the second half of the twentieth century showed the world a phenomenon such as tattoos that represent cats, their pets. Such tattoos are made from a photograph of a cat, and probably the main meaning of such tattoos is love for your pets. In Russia, tattoos with portraits of your own cats are not very popular.